Road-cart



(No Model.)

R. D. SCOTT.

ROAD CART.

No. 453,214. Patented June 2, 189

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT D. SCOTT, OF PONTIAC, MICIIIGAN.

ROAD- CART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,214, dated June 2, 1891.

Application tiled January 3, 1891. Serial No. 376,592. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom 13 may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT D. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, county of Oakland, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Construction of Road-Carts3'and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled-in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, of a roadcart embodying my invention.

It is the purpose of my invention to produce a road-cart in which the body is combined with the shafts, as follows: The rear end of the body having a full elliptic transverse spring beneath it, with a cross-bar below the spring and the ends of the cross-bar united to the shafts by intermediate springlinks, preferably spiralspring links, and either adjustable up and down or not, and regardless of how the forward end is suspended, but the same being preferablyv suspended by pivoted links.

In carrying out my invention, A represents the body, and B the shafts, of a road-cart.

C is a full elliptic spring beneath the rear Vof the body, crossing transversely.

D is a cross-bar attached beneath and in the plane of the said spring.

E represents spiral-spring links connecting the ends of the cross-bar with the adjustable hangers F on the shafts.

G represents a suspending link or links at the forward end of the body.

I would have it understood that I do not limit myself in the use of the full elliptic spring, cross-bar, and spiral springs E to a construction in which the forward end of the body may be suspended inv any particular manner, nor do I limit myself in their use to any means for raising or lowering the rear of the body, for they may be connected directly to the shafts and cross-bar with no means of adjusting up and down, although I prefer some form of adjustment; but

What Ibroadly claim is- In a road-cart, the combination, with the shafts, of rigid brackets attached thereto and projecting to the rear of the axle, a body suspended at its forward end from the shafts by pivotal links, a full elliptic spring attached to the under side of the rear end of the body with a rigid cross-bar beneath the spring, and spiral-spring links adjustably engaging the ends of said bar with said brackets, the construction being such that the cross-bar is 1ocated justback of the axle and admitting of vertical adjustment without contact with the axle, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT D. SCOTT.

W'itnesses:

WELLS W. LEGGETT,

' MARION A. REEVE. 

